Cilla Black on The Morecambe & Wise Show (1971)

From the BBC. Just sharing this to bring a little sunshine :)

[@MoosesValley]

Back when the whole family watched TV and everyone laughed and felt happy and included and had a great time. Happy days.

[@davidfanara3229]

Did you say whole family watches TV? Gee whiz ! I forgot we did back in the good old seventies, we would share the one TV. Thanks for reminding me, we used to watch Mary Tyler Moore,Love Boat, Carol Burnette and order Chinese food, or Pizza.

[@MoosesValley]

@@davidfanara3229 Awesome Dave !! Also Quincy ME, The Liberace Show, The Dave Allen Show, Iron Sides, Kojak, The Goodies, and for me Aussie TV shows as well: The Don Lane / Bert Newton Show, Matlock Police, Homicide, The Norman Gunston Show, Hoges, and many others.

[@davidfisher9026]

We were easily pleased. Circus, Miss World, London Palladium, Take Your Pick and Eurovision Song Contest had us glued to our black and white TV.

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

Remember watching Brucie with whole family - fabulous.

[@user-te1hi9rx7b]

yes. keeping the slaves all in the same subdued state of obedience

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

Hard to believe now but there was a time when you needed talent to be on TV. Talent like what these three had.

[@blakes8126]

Haha. Brilliant. A nod to Ern there!

[@dougaldouglas8842]

True, and an abundance of it. Since then, things have, sadly, gone downhill, mostly to smut and swearing, vulgarity.

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

@@dougaldouglas8842 Quite 😬

[@suziewade]

I love the What

[@kendog5760]

How lucky we were to have lived to see them at their absolute finest. Not a soul on telly can touch them! Lovely to see a young Cilla enjoying it as much as the audience. Now that’s talent!

[@kendog5760]

@King Royal what’s that got to do with anything mentioned on here?

[@kendog5760]

@King Royal well I liked her without any political affiliations. Don’t be so bitter and enjoy your life. It’s short.

[@paulbraine674]

50 yrs old that sketch and still makes me laugh. Brilliant duo

[@section5760]

It was a honour and a privilege to have been bought up in that era. Comedy the music the people and friends around us were all a joy to have known. They really were the good old days.

[@angelacooper2661]

Paul, I am 53 and so this particular Christmas show aired when I was just eighteen months old. Enjoyed seeing the repeats and it made me laugh.

[@susanbrown2909]

Everyone in the day watch theses two. A time when life was without the rigid ethics we see today. A time when just gentle ,simple comedy was the dish of the day. All we have left is memories and the ambience of the times..glad I lived through 60/70s..golden age.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

The ethics of today are human, have nothing to do with morality, social ethics of the pit we have.

[@carolynhague7199]

OMG me too. No ideology, no nastiness, no grifting, just talent, comedy, fun and laughter

[@zeeox]

Rigid ethics?

[@rhynouk1]

Love this. Cilla seems so at ease, so happy, so joyful. Eric & Ernie are such good company, so unpredictible and spontaneous. The gold standard for comedy.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

It is a shame she never kept it

[@davidsewellclarke4997]

" Don't interfere with me young Sir " absolute British Comedy at its best . Need I say more .

[@runbambirun]

I don't know if you really have to be of a certain "vintage" to fully appreciate this, but it helps. What wonderful smut-free comedy.

[@js00065]

I'm not sure you have to be... I was born several years after this performance but absolutely still appreciate the good natured humour

[@Wally-H]

Morecambe and Wise always make me think of my dear old grandad, who loved them to bits. I can still see him sitting in his favourite chair, laughing 'till he needed his hanky to wipe away the tears. Happy memories from watching their shows at Christmas in their old cottage.

[@npc3po301]

Ernie was so good, the way he fades in and out around Eric so effortlessly, when he's in he fills the screen but makes himself prectically invisible so the full focus can fall on Eric, incredible skill and symbiosis between them

[@whouster]

Eric Morecambe is a serious contender for being the funniest man in history. Cilla was a fantastic guest, and her constantly bursting into laughter just made it even funnier. Ernie's dancing at the end was the icing on the cake!

[@margaretwhittaker2291]

the dancing blew me away, ha ha

[@simonhodgetts6530]

I agree with you on funniest man - he was just naturally very, very funny.

[@bobmarshall1066]

I just adore this sketch, with the lovely Cilla genuinely cracking up at E & E 's antics, so spontaneous and genuinely hilarious no matter what your taste. Nothing like this today, it all has to be either vulgar, rude or crude, and oh yes, no talent.

[@jasoncoman9328]

Still better than anyone on tv today.....made me laugh and cry...fabulous!

[@richardsmith561]

Now Ant and Dec win best comedy duo awards year after year and they are about as funny as a dose of piles, it's actually an insult to Morecambe and Wise who were the GREATEST....shows where we are nowadays...RIP Eric and Ernie...thank you for making the world a better place...

[@MrEvangelist777]

Richard. Don't forget Cilla, RIP all three. An age of innocence and true comedy that we will never, sadly see again.

[@daibonehead]

I won’t disagree with you. But you are a miserable git.

[@DavidFraser007]

I loved Eric and Ernie, they were really funny , they also came over as nice guys. I don't know about Ant and Dec, I've never watched them for longer than 10 seconds.

[@padijeff5675]

I heard Cilla went in a Denham pub and said to the bar lady, You sound so common!🙂

[@martm216]

Absolutely

[@HenryRaeburn367]

Three British legends ,they did bring us sunshine

[@petejones879]

Why can't we get comedy like this today... The writing and the acting was just superb...

[@dannyhughes6306]

Watching this in December 2020 and "Bring me Sunshine" has never been more apt after the year we've all experienced...

[@bobafetts]

" For another pound we could have had lulu" off script, the genius of Eric Morecambe.....

[@captpicard6894]

I think the secret of Eric and Ernie was that they were clearly great friends off screen and you always felt you were being let into a little slice of their fun world when they were together. Without doubt the best comedy duo this country ever produced.

[@carolynhague7199]

Thé World not just thé country

[@carmeldeakin2456]

It was their timing. Just superb.

[@davidcoleman3661]

What about Canon and Ball and Mike & Bernie Winters …..not forgetting their dog Schnorbitz

[@carmeldeakin2456]

So sad to think these great entertainers are gone now.

[@johndoyle4723]

Brilliant, Eric brings out the best in Cilla and makes her relax and be natural, Ern is loving it. RIP all 3 , all brought us sunshine.

[@stevehillier5548]

Bring tears to my eyes watching there shows R.I.P

[@markpayne2217]

@@stevehillier5548 *their*

[@johnedwards1685]

Oh that lovely girl! Clearly having the time of her life and loving every minute with Eric and Ern. I’d have been frightened to death in front of that audience and the cameras, yet she laughs her head off, delivers all the script and belts out the song. Morecambe and Wise brought out the best in their guests with love and laughter. I remember BBC newsreader Angela Rippon exploding into a high-kicking dance routine that came out of nowhere, it wouldn’t have been much more of a surprise if Nelson had stepped off his column in Trafalgar Square and kicked the winning penalty in the Cup Final! Glenda Jackson, André Preview, Fenella Fielding…all just magical.

[@jeffhawkins7848]

God.....that makes you feel so warm inside. Brilliant then, brilliant now

[@mikemoore7362]

Two very funny guys. Christmas isn't the same without them. National treasures

[@Ampex196]

So true. Even harder to realise the Cilla has gone too. She was lovely - so very special !

[@suesophie1]

Couldn't have said it any better.

[@cycleSCUBA]

They did so many classic comedy sketches with guest stars. The Noel Coward 'play' with Fenella Fielding hilarious!

[@Ampex196]

@King Royal I hope you are wrong on that score. Cilla (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) came from a very working-class background. She enjoyed her success, though I can't ever imagine that she would 'pull up the ladder'. I can't really speak personally of John Eric Bartholomew.

[@rosebrown9265]

Brilliant yeah 🤣🤣

[@myarnie1950]

Loved the line “We could have got Lulu for a £1 more and she brings her own tea” Legends sadly missed

[@chancesareshewears]

I think he said TEETH...

[@myarnie1950]

@@chancesareshewears are you sure? Is it Tea or Teeth one of the great mysteries of life We need a poll to solve this

[@christians.8739]

@@myarnie1950 Tea for me...

[@SundaeExpress]

* "Another pound, we could have had Lulu..."

[@johndownie9385]

That was an in joke from backstage antics cilla was nickin teabags of the boys ill bet

[@ZXC5000]

how can anyone click dislike on this. This is wonderful and sadly all three of them are no longer with us

[@somewhereuk1957]

When we were young and life was so very good... when families ate together, sat together, watched TV and laughed out loud together. I wish the current generation well, but your life will never be as good as the times we had...

[@23715]

Every generation says the same thing.

[@user-mw8um6mc3v]

Cilla looks lovely here. And she just can't stop laughing! As for the boys....the best.

[@robintyson591]

Brilliant! My mum would make us home made hamburgers. The only night in the week when we could eat them while watching TV and eat with our hands and then sit and watch Eric and Ernie. Cilla was in stiches. It's the TIMING more than anything else - pure genius!

[@johnrauner2515]

The direction is brilliant. No continuous and pointless switching from camera to camera. The director is content to stay with the same shot for ages with no urgency to switch to another until there is something worth switching for.

[@brianreilly8661]

they certainly did bring us sunshine nobody could touch them the best

[@andrewmatthews6861]

Brian Reilly total class Brian 😊

[@gthbtn]

🎼Fifty years since this bit, and the world has gone to shi... but you still make us smile and that makes our life worthwhile! 🎶 Gone but never forgotten. ❤️

[@mikeholmes4348]

Just incredible, three true earth angels with a wonderful talent that lifts you even on the darkest of days, they are all truly missed but never forgotten. God love them and bless them, thank you Eric, Ernie and Cilla.

[@pjaylett]

The first ever crush I had was Cilla Black and you can see just how much fun she had doing this sketch. Golden days of TV.

[@stephanguitar9778]

Me too, when I was 7

[@markfox1545]

She was a really nasty piece of work in reality - a real 'do you know who I am' merchant.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

She ended up the staunchest Thatcher supporter, probably bought the Sun all her life. Collaborator and betrayer of her roots, her wealth came first.

[@tonyking1832]

Ernie Wise very underrated and a great talent as shown by his great dancing here. What an awesome duo they were. And Cilla Black so gorgeous and lovely and talented.

[@johnking5174]

Eddie Braben actually gave Ernie a better personality and more to do with his writing. Eddie was the man who turned Ernie into the pompous playwright which Ernie loved.

[@nigelwilliams9307]

Not underrated by anyone except you my friend..

[@keithdavidson4723]

What a superb sketch….so simple but so funny. Sadly they’re all gone now. R.I.P. Eric, Ern, Cilla and Eddie Braben, and thank you for all the wonderful entertainment and laughs 🙏🏻

[@thomastom888]

They really were a Ray of sunshine In our world and always felt better seeing Them on tv

[@oldskoolfool141]

"Let your arms be as warm as the sun from up above" such a sweet lyric that, RIP Eric & Ern, still bringing us sunshine

[@bluey4149]

Life will never be the same for me again. I know those days won't ever come back, there's no time machine or anything. I wasn't even born back then, but at leaat we have the glory of sound and video to bless us with masterpieces like this.

[@JIMuser-vh3Zxx]

Massive loss to us all . Their Xmas shows were to die for and boy what fantastic fun and pleasure they were

[@alanwhite7912]

I'm going to sound really old....but good, clean, honest fun. Brilliant.

[@livelongandprosper70]

hmm maybe so, but they cut out the scene where Eric and Ernie spit roasted Cilla.. Eric was in the mouth end, and he was hung like a Klingon, she was choking and gagging.. it was superb.

[@RB747domme]

@@livelongandprosper70 I honestly don't understand what you were referring to? Cilla black did a sketch with them, that's what I'm guessing you meant. I don't remember it. What is spitting roast Cilla? Explain the sketch please?

[@PrinceOvPersia1]

No you dont sound old at all...this si indeed what comedy used to be about...these days most of the stuff you get is a load of cobblers...I would rather see this time and tie again than watch some wise crack drone on about current affairs in the guise of modern-day comedy...Morecambe and Wise were probably the best British comedy duo...

[@PrinceOvPersia1]

@@RB747domme Ignore Rob hes talking a load of cobblers...he thinks spit roasting someone is comedy...what a bloody shame, the times we live in and th people we encounter :(

[@PrinceOvPersia1]

@Blackporsche roadster Yeah an di suppose you were born yesterday were you? U want ur dummy now toddler, so u can STFU!?!?!!?

[@anthonysummers1394]

Extremely funny and no swearing unlike the so called comedians of today.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Swearing, vulgarity, filth of all sorts, cheap laughs

[@justmyopinion628]

I loved all 3 of them, it brings back some very lovely memories of my childhood. I show everyone the paper bag trick, even my children do at school.

[@bartram33]

In the days when TV companies didn't rely on reality shows.

[@dr2stroke611]

if people didnt keep watching those crap reality shows then the tv companies wouldnt keep showing them

[@edmundpower1250]

@@dr2stroke611 okay Einstein how do we do it?, 😂😂

[@steveeyre6975]

@@edmundpower1250 simple stop fucking making them 🤓Doh

[@martinmaxfield8285]

The bit where Eric twitches as though Cilla had touched him, brilliant. Then one of the best lines ever. "For another pound we could have had Lulu..and she brings her own teeth" Comedy Gold

[@gthbtn]

Thank you for bringing me sunshine in 2021... Gone, but never forgotten legends. Glad you didn't pay the extra pound for Lulu!

[@1000000trs]

*"The Morcambe, Wise and Black Show"* I'm not usually a Cilla fan, but she's just _wonderful_ in this! So talented and natural - that suddenly the perfect double act Double-Act is a perfect Tripple-Act, as though it had been that way forever.

[@irenejohnston6802]

She's really natural and lovely here. The exaggerated so called Scouseness came later. I know, I'm from Liverpool. She from just North of city centre, I'm from south end. Accents change over time but then, cld pinpoint particular districts. I am a Lancashire lass not a Scouser. Before Merseyside was invented. aged 82 🕊️

[@1000000trs]

@@irenejohnston6802 Totally agree.

[@thoskel1]

They're all gone but we can still enjoy them today

[@anderjpoo]

We are so lucky to have these happy times to look back on ..... during these troubled times.

[@bobbysilver272]

Morcambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies, Faulty Towers, The Good Life, Carry On, Benny Hill, The Goodies, etc. etc. These days we have Ant & Dec, Made in Essex, and Cake Off.

[@BluebirdFrank]

Tears of laughter - miss them all so much - Ant and Dec eat your hearts out!

[@garrywood5345]

Sometimes you only realise The True Value of a Moment.....When it Becomes a Memory 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤

[@mramicus6917]

All these lovely Stars that i grew up with are now Leaving me now ! Bless them ! & Take Care Cilla ! I miss you !

[@andrewp7002]

Another pound we could have had Lulu! Brilliant. They were a national institution.

[@bobthompson4918]

Back when comedians were actually funny 😃

[@imbatman2868]

Hilarious is a better word... How the modern acts try so dismally to copy

[@seanodwyer4322]

Bob- liked the brit comedy called- ''Syke's''' A Skinny husband with a fat wife

[@gailharris5685]

Watching Saturday evening with the family, and hearing them laugh wonderful memories

[@davidoneworld7759]

No internet...no social media...three TV channels...happiness!!! 👌🇬🇧👌😆😆🇬🇧

[@cogidubnus1953]

Hard times economically...yet folk like these somehow made life more than bearable...

[@ArchieFatcackie]

Incomparable. Eric Morecambe was arguably the funniest man ever and Ernie Wise was the perfect foil. People forget that Ernie was a superb song and dance man.

[@johnking5174]

Ernie was the business brain behind the double act. Bill Cotton their boss at the BBC said he was as hard as stone when their contract came up for renewal every two or three years. He had a business brain, and would have made an excellent businessman if he never met Eric. Eric said that he would never have had the financial security in life if it were not for Ernie. Indeed many theatres, TV producers etc would offer very little money to Eric as they thought he was a fool. Ernie sorted that out. You never ever messed with Ernie money wise.

[@brianmorrison9168]

In a word .. BRILLIANT ! RIP Eric, Ernie & Cilla

[@gingerladyaubern]

Sadly we will never see their 'like' again. Thank goodness for KZbin uploads and TV programmes being preserved and not wiped!

[@bostonblackie9503]

Hard to believe all three are gone now. RIP and thanks for the laughter!

[@anyandeverything2952]

I love Cilla's reaction to Eric in this. She makes it even funnier. RIP Cilla

[@mobrown6635]

7

[@kingflappy4827]

RIP to all 3 there will never be a greater duo

[@frankhornby6873]

Eric and Ernie..........you definitely brought sunshine, and laughter all the while......😂😹🐸😃😄😁😆🤡🤠🤣....👍🏻

[@pattydehaan2899]

I remember going to a concert in England with my mother and our next door neighbor to see Cilla Black I was just a young girl then it was 1970 but it was such a wonderful experience and she sang so beautifully it was a great night I remember to this day and I now live in the USA but it's such a pleasure to go back in time and see Morecambe and wise which I love so much back then are you being served which was hilarious and the Jimmy tarbuck show that I used to enjoy. I miss Jolly Old England and I miss the 70s it was a much better time

[@corbe1970ify]

Don't care what anybody says Ernie wise dancing is as funny as Eric's piss taking GENIUS

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Pure class show business greats Never be another TV era like this The great and sadly missed cilla really was a star for the tv !!

[@extrastype]

God I was 12. remember this like it was Saturday night just gone. watched it with mam . dad at the pub brought crisps and pop back

[@glover361]

CPGB stalinist until she

[@bigpete4227]

Now that was the most British thing I ever heard.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Crisps and pop from the pub! Smokey Bacon Walkers, Vimto and a paper straw! Those were the days! Peanuts if dad was feeling flush.........

[@richln9682]

The boys are great as always, but I'd forgotten how lovely Cilla was! What a joy.

[@KAF128]

Marvellous ! I think it shows the high regard in which they held Cilla, in letting her join in THEIR signature song - not sure if many others would have been allowed to do that !

[@ZekromReshiramVolt]

Especially with her not very nice voice

[@tomkent4656]

@@ZekromReshiramVolt I think she was having trouble with the key.

[@terryallen5328]

Quality entertainment from three of our best ever performers, all sadly missed. RIP all three.

[@sparkesman1980]

Masterclass in effortless comedy.......RIP all 3 of them

[@thomastom888]

They all definitely made sunshine in our world Rip wonderful lady and gentlemen

[@sgtg4600]

When life was simple and fun.

[@javiergilvidal1558]

Neither nor ... You simply forgot, or ignore: Winter of Discontent, Three-Day Week, Sterling Crisis, England a beggar to the European Common Market (humiliated by De Gaulle, no less!), industrial unrest, wild strikes, Bloody Sunday as part of the gaping reeking wound of the Northern Ireland conflict .... and the racial and religious time-bomb, now exploding, already ticking. Bleak, bleak times, though I grant you these are bleaker.

[@johnnyoranges]

In our house in the 60s and 70s, M&W were compulsory viewing. Just laughing, piss taking great humor, with some music thrown in. Yeh, six minutes of smiles here.

[@favorites7940]

Lovely Cilla Black-she's certainly sadly missed.

[@boota1979]

From 1968 when I was eleven years old I have adored Eric and Ernie, Eric has funny bones I just need to look at him and I'm laughing my head off.

[@tonybaird7832]

Pure Gold

[@JustSomeBloke1]

Cilla proves how difficult it must have been to be Ernie Wise and keep a straight face throught a routine.

[@kjamison5951]

The good old days when some comedy was just good clean fun.

[@joanconnolly8710]

It's 2022 and that made me laugh. Good old fashioned comedy. They were so funny❤️❤️

[@chrisredditch]

The cute Cilla, thoroughly enjoying herself. Wonderful footage.

[@jtk1ify]

how i miss those days of watching Eric and Ernie and laughing so heartily with my parents at these two wonderful men and their irreplaceable comic genius

[@dcw1467]

God bless Eric, Ern, and Cilla x

[@Cats.Hammers.]

Lovely Cilla. Beautiful person. A triumvirate of brilliance.

[@paulwalters9885]

Was in Blackpool last week and I heard Bring Me Sunshine but by someone else, I was nearly crying because it brought me back to watching Morecambe and Wise and their own wee bit of Sunshine that they gave us. Cilla was a great sport here,just wholesome clean fun. Sadly missed all three of them.

[@aussiness74]

When entertainment was exactly that, entertaining, as it has been said here, where did the time go, it all felt so much safer somehow and fun.

[@shirlegirling6830]

Eric was the funniest👍🇬🇧

[@Dazzletoad]

Yeah and all white without anyone screaming racism. Good fun for the sake of good fun :)

[@davidantoine1603]

Shirle Girling yes he was 😀😀😀

[@murraycapstick4581]

aussiness74 jo

[@theonewivthesponge]

compare this to the tripe on tv now no comparison

[@mattissotrendy]

theonewivthesponge True. This is utter tripe.

[@mattissotrendy]

Lee Davenport 😂

[@millwallholdings]

Bet they both porked her after

[@terrywebb7044]

Matt Burfield p

[@spikeybaby1735]

Tripe ??? methinks you are of a certain age my friend lol

[@pauldg837]

Eric, an absolute comic genius. A lot of this scene was him ad-libbing. You can't write that type of spontaneous humour.

[@24magiccarrot]

Eric never ad-libbed on a tv recording. The scripts were airtight on the day of recording, if he ad-libbed during rehearsal and it was funny the ad-lib would be written into the sketch and Eric would perform it as if he'd just thought of it. But Eric and Ernie were both meticulous for never taking a risk and going off-script on a recording but were so good at performing they could make a scipted remark look off the cuff. I believe it was Tom Jones that mentioned it in an interview he said nobody was allowed to go off-script not even Eric once the script had been finalized and everything was rehearsed to the point of tedium.

[@colinshomepage1214]

I feel so sad but happy that I have been around to witness the best comedy and best times on this planet.. RIP Eric, Ernie, Cilla

[@successschhoolofmotoring]

Not much makes me laugh in these modern times but these two never miss to make me laugh 🤣😂.

[@davefk]

Where have all those years gone to.... This brought back so many wonderful memories of being 14 in 1971.

[@AmethystDew]

***** When the whole family watched t.v. together.

[@clairesmith314]

***** Aww Dave x

[@davefk]

AmethystDew Yes, I remember watching Saturday night TV with my mum and dad. It would be 'The Generation Game' followed by 'Starskey and Hutch' or 'Kojak', 'Benny Hill' 'Steptoe and Son' etc. We only had 3 channels but we really did have so much to watch even though looking back some of it is now no longer politically correct....

[@davefk]

Claire Smith I know, i'm a bit sad for the time gone by and loved ones passed, but I do have some wonderful people in my life now at 58 so I am blessed. x

[@catchairintherye9503]

Yep, Dave. I agree. As a family we used to enjoy Opportunity Knocks, New Faces, the Dave Allen Show, Charlie's Angels, The Liver Birds, the list goes on.

[@richardphillips6281]

Tears of joy to see and hear these wonderful performers again. Thank you for sharing this with us. I hope our kidz can have innocent memories like this.

[@keegan773]

For another pound we could have had Lulu.....classic. Then Cilla loses it completely.

[@barrymcintosh8458]

and she brings her own tea hhahaha

[@collieclone]

And she has her own teeth!

[@traceycookson3924]

So funny 😂

[@margaretwhittaker2291]

I really cracked up at that point!!

[@cb4883]

Cilla black was not a nice person in later life British Air ways can tell you this when she flew with them if they didn't address her as miss black she would tell her husband for them to do this

[@ElvarMasson]

Three great entertainers. We need more of this sort of entertainment

[@davekochanski8756]

I watch this with a smile from ear to ear 😁😁

[@chris-vn6sw]

When Cilla used to sing our dog used to go in the kitchen. 🤪😂 Happy days

[@andi13929]

Happy memories. Best times of my life.

[@birdsaloud7590]

Ernie’s dance at the end made my day

[@adolfhelmet6]

Two of our best-loved comedians, and Cilla, who passed away two years ago today.

[@scotty193]

We lucked out with this pair..............absolute joy

[@philipsteel5024]

Now that's telly of the good old days. 100% joy and funny. A time that can never be forgotten.